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Originally Posted by mcdeegan
All right, I read your post this morning and have been mulling over it all day. I am a newbie and I think I want to try this so I make the jump from auto to manual mode and force myself to learn more about photography and my camera. Plus, I wanted to do something unique to celebrate my half-century birthday this year and this, while difficult, seems more fun than training for a marathon. I have been taking pictures forever and have a website where I post my sports photos so I could post there as I have no clue about Flickr and haven't figured out how to post here.
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McDeegan - 365 projects are great way to learn and challenge yourself. With regard to Flickr - its a great place to share and comment on pictures. You can get a free account just by signing in. You can learn more
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Originally Posted by mcdeegan
I have never attempted any of the assignments and am not sure I even understand some of them... Hope there will be some help...
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Taking part in assignments is another good way to challenge yourself. Its quite simple - every week, a theme is announced (this week it is Shallow Depth of Field -
here). Just take a picture which fits the theme and post in that thread. Winners are chosen by the mods and posted in the weekly round up email. There is more info and the rest of the assignments
here. Just go through some of them and you will get the general idea